Videos & Photo Gallery

Featured Videos

A day at Miami Gliders, captured from the cockpit: the tow, the release, and the long quiet glide back over the Everglades.

steveo1kinevo enjoys a glider ride with Miami Glider's pilot Stuart G.

Soaring over South Florida with Miami Gliders, filmed from the cockpit.

Aviator Zone follows Professional Pilot Felipe Santiago earning his glider rating at Miami Gliders.

Photo Gallery

Aerial views, runway scenes, students on their first solo, and the sailplanes that make it all possible. Every photo here was taken at Homestead General Airport (X51) or from a glider above it.

Glider soaring over South Florida at golden hour

Wing over the Everglades and South Florida farmland, view from the cockpit

Glider cockpit instrument panel with towering clouds and farmland below

Aerial panoramic view of Homestead from a glider

Glider on the grass runway at Homestead General Airport

Towplane in flight near a tropical storm cell over South Florida

Glider tied down, waiting for the rain to pass

Student Victor practicing his aerotow in a Schweizer SGS 2-32

Glider in the air with South Florida below

Miami Gliders' Pilatus B4 sailplane in flight

Pilatus B4 sailplane viewed from below

Cockpit view banking steeply over the South Florida fields

Cockpit view on an overcast soaring day with the Everglades stretching to the horizon

Multiple sailplanes staged on the flight line

Miami Gliders ground crew at Homestead General Airport

Pilots Ernesto and Alfonso after retrieving gliders

Pilot Manfred landing the Salto sailplane

Blanik L-23 sailplane banking in flight

Student Jonathan H. being rewarded after his first solo, with flight instructor Angel D.

Schleicher ASW-20 (N11KJ) waiting for tow, great soaring conditions ahead

Pilot Julia with the Pawnee towplane

Angel with the Miami Gliders Pawnee towplane

Kids exploring a Miami Gliders sailplane

Pilot Eric with an ASW-15 sailplane

Private pilot students at Miami Gliders

Pilot Jorge with the Citabria towplane

Pilot and owner Steve D. having a little fun in this photo

Blanik L-23 tied down at sunrise with mist drifting across the field

Pilatus B4 sailplane on the grass with the pilot in the cockpit, ready for takeoff

Ernesto flying his classic blue Schweizer 1-26 over the South Florida fields

Pilot walking a Super Blanik L-23 out to the runway by the wing

Flight instructor Angel D. tying down the Blanik L-23 for the day

Aerial view of Homestead General Airport from a glider in flight

Crew at the gliderport with a sailplane on the grass behind them

Cockpit view over the patchwork fields of South Florida with cumulus building

Wingtip framed against a tower of South Florida cumulus